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been a rare good-looking one to boot, with wonderful 

 trotting action for a blood horse. 



The Squire of Snelston, though he has long given up 

 all active participation in the chase, is a rare fox preserver. 

 His principal coverts are The Hollywood and the New 

 Gorse just opposite to it — the Ashbourne-Cubley road 

 dividing them. There have been many good runs to 

 Snelston, but the most famous one, from it was that from 

 Shutt's dumble on February 6th, 1888, exactly twenty 

 years after the historical run from Radburne. It is a co- 

 incidence that this run was to Radburne, and beyond it. 



1862. 



In this year there is the first mention of wire in 

 Leicestershire, and some people thought the localities 

 where it was in use should be published, and also the 

 names of the farmers who put it up ; but the suggestion 

 does not seem to have met with much encouragement. 

 Curiously enough, the idea of a Hunt Servants' Benefit 

 Society seems to have been mooted at about the same 

 time. 



Regular hunting began on October 27th, but nothing 

 particularly noteworthy occurred till January 8th, an 

 account of which appears later on, but as the actual points 

 touched are given accurately in Mr. Meynell Ingram's 

 diary, it will be interesting to give his description. 

 " Found in the Rough, ran very fast by Reginald's (the 

 Parson's) Gorse to the Burrows, turned back down the 

 brookside to Trusley, by Dalbury, crossed, and re-crossed 

 Sutton brook, over the earth on Bearwardcote, down to 

 A. Mosley's (Burnaston). Here they changed foxes, the 

 run one being quite beat and going on straight. The 

 body of the hounds turned to the right back by Burnaston, 

 Etwall, Dalbury, Sutton Church, under Mr. Bradshaw's 

 covert (Potter's) to the pit where the earth is, crossed the 

 brook at H. Pole's,* by Barton, Church Broughton to 



* Mr. Chandos-Pole-Gell. 



